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above himfelf in condition, difplaying a frate 

 of purity in appearance, nature may, under 

 fuch favourable circumftances, prove herfdf 

 adequate to the taflv of abforption, and it may 

 be again received into the circulation, no ill 

 confequences becoming perceptible ; but 

 fliould theveffels have been before overloaded, 

 and the blood in a ftate of visciditv, 

 very great danger muft inevitably enfue ; for 

 the perfpirative matter thus preternaturally 

 thrown upon the circulation, after acquiring 

 by its ftagnation ^ proportional tenacity, mull 

 render the whole fyftem liable to fudden in- 

 flammation upon increafing the blood's mor 

 tion to the leafl degree of velocity. 



To the perfuafive force of thefe probable 

 effects, I have long fince become the greater 

 convert, by attentively adverting to the great 

 number of those horses that io fuddenly 

 drop dead upon the road, in the yery next 

 ftage after having undergone fuch unnatural 

 ablution. To the rational or fcientinc ob- 

 ferver, the caufe of thefe deaths does not 

 require a momentary invedigation ; the fyftem 



of CIRCULATION, DERIVATION, REPLE- 

 TION, and REVULSION, are too well under- 

 B b 4 ftood 



